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This is Blaine Junior Blake Kresky, and you're listening to the Top one hundred
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Countdown on the Walcome Preps podcast with Tyler and Ryland Let's go water Rights.
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Greetings, and welcome into the watcum Preps podcast. This is episode two hundred
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and twenty seven, the fourth of ten podcasts in the Top one hundred Countdown.
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I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson of What
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coome Preps. Tyler, how are we doing two hundred and twenty seven?
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I just start laughing in my head when you said that, because it's Yeah,
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that's crazy. It's just a lot. It's it's and it's awesome.
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It's it's so cool. I'm doing great. Excited to talk about more of
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these top one hundred guys. Yeah, and one of them that we're going
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to talk about today gave us the intro there, Blake Kureski, linebacker from
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Blaine. He's not gonna have to wait very long to hear about himself,
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but we've got nineteen guys to talk about today. We're going from forty three
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down to twenty five in the Top one hundred Countdown, which is sponsored by
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Anytime Fitness visit any of their three locations in Ferndale, Linden and Linden North
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anytime. Fitness tremendous sponsor Tyler. They've done all kinds of stuff, and
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they're going to continue to do stuff into the spring and into the fall of
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next year, and I'm sure they're going to continue to do stuff even after
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that. I mean, they've been big supporters of Watcomb Preps and Watcombe County
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High school athletes, so that's always really cool to see this. As I
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mentioned, forty three down to twenty five, the twenty four down to sixteen
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or excuse me, twenty four down to six podcasts will come out January ninth
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at noon. You can also go back and listen. We've done one hundred
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all the way down to forty four leading into today. That is three different
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podcasts, one hundred down to eighty two, eighty one to sixty three,
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and sixty two down to forty four. As I said, we've got nineteen
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guys to talk about Tyler. What do you say we get right into it.
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Let's do it. Number forty three on the top one hundred cound down
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six foot two and thirty five pounds offensive line defensive line. I love the
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way we're starting this podcast. Tyler. He is a sophomore from the Seahome
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Mariners. It's number sixty five Cole Terrell. Yeah. Awesome athlete. Uh
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and it's you know, great feet, great hands. You know, probably
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could be a tight end. You know, starts at power forward on the
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basketball team. Seahom has such a rich tradition basketball wise, it's rare that
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you see a big lineman that can start as a sophomore on that team.
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It's a he's just he's just that kind of athlete. And I put offense
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and defensive line because he was kind of moved all over the place. He
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could play some guard, hard to play some tackle on both sides, you
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know, defensive tackle. They play a three man front. He could be
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all over that front and and he was the anchor and pardon the pun Seahill
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Mariners, but it was but it was you know, on both sides of
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the line. You know, they rotated a lot on the defensive line.
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But if they needed that stop, if it's third and less than five or
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whatever, you know, he's going into the game, there's no doubt about
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that. And he just he's gonna get bigger, more athletic. I've been
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starting since day one as a freshman on the offensive line this year a lot
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more defensively now twenty three tackles, two and a half sacks, one and
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a half tackles for loss. You know, as the run game started to
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develop as the year went on, you know, they started out pretty strong
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with the run game they had. You know, it kind of fell off
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a little bit, but they finished pretty strong as well. He's the guy,
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He's the guy they're running behind. You know, he's one of the
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he's one of the few, I believe, two time Offensive Linemen of the
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Week participants. You know, there's been a few of those guys. But
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man, he's just and he still has a couple more years to go.
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Super bright future, like I said, really athletic kid, and and he's
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a guy that could be a future kind of top ten kind of guy,
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top five kind of guy, and on these lists. So keep an eye
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on him for the future. Number forty two in the top one hundred,
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countown six foot, one hundred and eighty two pounds of running back and linebacker.
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He is a junior from Mount Baker High School. Thanks coach Number twenty
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four Dylan moa oh Man. Well, you know, as a sophomore last
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year, played a ton started both ways on that team that made it all
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the way. The state championship team played a little played out of position as
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a tight end. They just they just didn't have a tight end and he
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filled that spot. It was pretty much no but because they had some great
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running backs obviously Marcus George Willem, Molole, Brady West. They had some
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dudes, and Delamoa has always played running back, but it was pretty much
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known that once he became a junior and all those guys graduated, he would
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be the featured back. And he took it and ran with it and had
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a huge year. The numbers were pretty much the same defensive wise that you
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know, they played four less games this past year, but the numbers were
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still there. It was up in tackles for loss, so he did some
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good things on defense, but as a running back he had some really big
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numbers. Was named All Conference first team at running back one hundred and forty
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four carries for seven hundred and eighty five yards and twelve touchdowns. Also caught
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a couple passes for eleven yards, and then on defense forty six and a
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half tackles, eight tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, two passes deflected,
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a fumble recovery, and he picked off Opaci he returned for seventeen yards.
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I believe that week he was he was in the running there for the
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defensive Player of the Week. He might have won it, actually, I
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think he. I think he did in that Topinish game. Yeah. Just
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an unbelievable force of nature almost on the football field, like rarely comes out
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of games. Is a great wrestler, well conditioned. Did track for the
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first time last year to kind of develop that speed coming into this year,
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and as he keeps getting bigger and faster and stronger, you know those sophomores
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that turn into juniors, It just it's it's eye opening to see, you
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know, the twenty pound weight game, the muscle mass, and this overall
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speed and power. I mean, he runs with power. All of his
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runs are between the tackles and if they need those those key yards, that's
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where they're going. And the defense knew it and he still picked them up.
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Really good player number forty one on the top one hundred countdown, six
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foot two, two hundred and five pounds type and outside linebacker, a senior
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from the Lynden Christian Lynks. It's number nine, Brody Bauman. Yeah.
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I always look at that six two two five and it just astonishes me because
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he looks like he's six four two twenty five. I thought you had to
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be to play at Linden Christian. I thought so too, and and man,
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he's just in all his whole career, I've always kind of thought,
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well, he's a baseball player playing football, and this year it I didn't
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think that at all. I thought, this guy is a physical football player
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playing football. That one of the most physical players in the county. It's
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it's, uh, he tackles through you, you know what I mean.
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There were tons of times when there'd be a quarter where or even a half
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where it's like he wasn't hardly involved at all defensively because they just ran away
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from him. They stayed away from him. I think that I think,
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I don't want to say plays feared him at times, but it was he's
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he's different out there. He's he plays with a like an animalistic desire to
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just dominate, and which is rare for a guy who's probably gonna go play
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college baseball. You know, it's a totally different mindset. Awesome baseball player
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plays playing on the basketball team again. He took he took some time off
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from basketball. Now he's playing again, coming off the bench to supply some
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some some muscle down low and stuff like that. But man, as a
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football player, you know, as a defensive player, especially forty seven and
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a half tackles, twelve tackles for loss, four passes defended, a sack
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of forced fumble. He had an interception that he returned fifty five yards,
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one yard away from scoring the touchdown. He had a couple of pick sixes
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as a junior playing inside linebacker. Uh really really glad to see him play
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some offense as well. I thought that. I thought, you know,
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they have so many weapons. I didn't know how much run he would get
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on the offensive side of the ball, especially as a tight end. They
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don't really run a true tight end too much. But he was able to
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get in there, catch sixteen passes for one hundred and twenty three yards and
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a touchdown. And then when they run the wishbone, he'd be like a
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full back because of that toughness and that lead blocking, and he carried the
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ball four times for seven yards just to pick up you know, a third
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and one situation or fourth and one situation, give him the ball. So
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a guy that could do so many different things. But I think what really
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stood out for me was that that that you know, that crazy linebacker,
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just like a guy that is different on the field, stands out on film,
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stands out when you're watching the game, and is really fun to watch.
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Tyler. I don't know if I've talked about it on this before on
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the podcast, but I think you and I might have talked about it before.
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But I used to help out with a couple of Major League Baseball teams
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and one of the things that they were always looking for and one of the
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things that I would do for them is what kids were were really aggressive and
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big time football players, but they were baseball players. Huh. Interesting,
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you know. And so what the idea was is they wanted guys to play
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the game of baseball with a football mentality, right. They wanted guys that
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were going to go one hundred miles an hour all the time. They wanted
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guys that were going to be aggressive, stealing bases, Guys that would you
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know, run through a wall, you know, because when you think about
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baseball, it no offensive baseball players. But that's not really that mentality of
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baseball, right, It's a different sport. It's more like a skill.
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It's like you can either do it or you can't. It's like juggling.
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Yeah, I mean, I think baseball. Baseball is more closer to golf
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in terms of, you know, like that mentality than they are to say
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a hockey or a football you know what. Like Yogi Barra says, half
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the game is ninety percent mental. Yeah, he also loved his slices of
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pizza. Yeah. The and so that's when you talk about Brody Bowman though,
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that's a guy that is like that I would have been putting on a
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list. Now. I didn't scout these guys in terms of how great are
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they baseball wise, right, But when you tell me a guy is,
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oh, this guy is probably going to go, you know, play baseball
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at the next level, or has the abilities to play baseball at the next
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level, And then I go, really, and and that's his film from
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football. Yeah, that's a guy. That's a guy that's going on the
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list, you know what I mean? In six two two oh five,
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that's a great baseball body. Right there. Yep, that is a great
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baseball body. So yeah, and I I know, I think I've told
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you this before too. Brandon Huffman was a big fan of Brookie Powman.
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Big. Yeah. Let's move on number forty on the top one hundred countdown.
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Five nine, one seventy five. A little bit different body type five
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nine, one seventy five wide receiver, defensive back. He is a senior
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from the Knuxzack Valley of Pioneers. It's number one Jackson Bennett. Yeah,
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super tough, really hard to bring down, even at that size. You
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know, there was there was a reverse that he were for ten yards.
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I think I talked about it during the senior podcast, and it was against
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Lyndon Christian when they played at home during the regular season, and it was
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up there like it would be if I was doing you know, plays of
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the Year type thing, you know, top ten plays of the year,
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and it would probably be in the top ten. And it was just a
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ten yard carry in the middle of the field. But what he did on
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that carry to break tackle, spin away drag guys and he's the smallest guy
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in the field was just phenomenal. That's the first thing I think of when
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I think of Jackson Bennett, there's lots of things that he did. I
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mean, the pick six in the state playoffs was awesome. Him returning kicks
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and punts, guys kicking away from him constantly, you know, a catching
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just a quick just a quick out catch and then make something happen, or
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even going deep. Man. I remember, I think it was like Week
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two or something. It was really early in the season. I was standing
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on the Nuksack Valley sideline. Nuksack Valley just got the ball back its first
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quarter. You know, it's probably I think it was like seven to nothing
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at that point, early on in the first quarter. I believe it was
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against Connell and and Coach Bartell looks at me. They break that out of
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Coach Barto kind of looks at me, and he goes, we're going deep
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to Jackson Benner right here. I thought I'd just help you out with the
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photography, and and I just kind of I just kind of smiled and it
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was almost like and it was a touchdown. It was like a fifty eight
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yard touchdown. And he kind of looked back at me and winked, and
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and it was great because I was able to kind of line up and get
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ready for that picture. Yeah, you know, and it was it was
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the confidence that they have in him. It was just what was so cool.
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Played a lot of defense this year, and in a spot that's almost
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like kind of like a nickelback but an outside landbacker depending on what kind of
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offense they're going against, and against a running offense, he was. He
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was a load. I mean he would go and make tackles behind the line
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of scrimmage. He had seven tackles for loss as basically a nickelback, but
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he also broke up seven passs, thirty four and a half tackles, two
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forced fumbles of bumber recovery. I talked about the pick six, three kickoff
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returns for sixty nine yards, nine punt returns for one hundred and thirty six
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yards on those reverses, eleven carries for seventy seven yards and a touchdown,
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and then on offense, twenty one catches for four hundred and seventy nine yards
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and five touchdowns, well over twenty yards at catch, had one thousand yards
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receiving in his career. You know, one of those guys that I saw
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a little bit as a sophomore he was playing some safety and doing different things,
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but he ended up being, you know, a different kind of player
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as a junior, and he just kept elevating his game and of that one
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of one of those pioneers of that senior class. It was just a class
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that you know, I'll remember for the rest of my life. Just a
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really really strong class up and down. And he was a big, big
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part of that. Number thirty nine on the top one hundred count down.
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Six foot two oh five linebacker. He is a junior from the Blaine Border
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Rights. The young man who gave us the intro tonight Summer thirty five.
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Blake Kureski. Yeah, pure linebacker. You know, you gotta have,
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you know, kind of like that Brody Bauman. You know, you gotta
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have that one guy on the field that just screams linebacker at you. And
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that is Blake Kuresky. You know, has played running back in the past,
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but part of that junior class that he's in there just loaded at running
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back. You know, I just don't you know that unless they're running a
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true fullback, I could see him doing that. But I wouldn't be surprised
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if next year they put a you know, a fifty number on him and
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just have him play some guard or something because he's such an impact player at
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the point of attack, you know, and he can make plays happen.
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Now, I know you want it's tough to have guys go both ways and
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all that stuff, but but boy, he is a He's a force as
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an inside line. Really good in pass coverage too. Had an interception that
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he returned for eleven yards. Even returned to punt for four yards. I
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think it was a short punt because he was probably in the middle of the
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field and just grabbed it and went four yards. Yeah, eight yard?
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Did he return four yards? Yeah, exactly. Fifty seven tackles on the
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year, eight tackles for loss, four and a half sacks, really good
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blitzing linebacker, you know, very instinctive at a forced fumble and had a
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fumber recovery. I think that. Uh yeah. I mean as an overall
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just football player, was probably Blaine's best football player. As the season wore
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on, you know, they had a lot of did dealt with a lot
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of injuries and stuff like that, but as a pure football player, he
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was it. And then at the end of the year he ended up kicking
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off you know, he's a soccer player. He's a striker on the on
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the soccer team. So it's like you imagine that guy playing soccer. I
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look out soccer there, Yeah exactly. But but man, just just a
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beast, you know. And so I could see him do a lot of
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things next year, not just being an inside lnebacker. He might be kicking
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field goals, extra points, you know, he could be punting. Who
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knows. But they're gonna utilize him in every way possible. Really fun player
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to watch. Number thirty eight on the top one hundred count down, six
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foot, two hundred and twenty five pounds running back and linebacker senior from the
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Swalocumb Storm. It's number ten, DeAndre Dunmore. Yeah. We talked about
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carl Bach wearing number ten as an inside linebacker and how that's fun to see
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the same thing with DeAndre Dunmore. Preten looks fun at running back too,
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Yes, it does. And he's he's been around a long time and put
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up some huge numbers over the years. And you know I was I was
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talking about, you know, a blitzing inside linebacker. There might not have
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been a better one this year than DeAndre Dunmore, but it was more of
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like a run blitz. He especially on those fly sweeps. I mean he
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could time those up just right where he's either gonna pop the ball loose or
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he's gonna, you know, knock the guy into the five yards back.
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He's gonna create big time. And uh and it even has a running back.
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I mean he you know, they it was kind of a three head,
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well four headed monster really back there. It's like every game Marcus Nixon,
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DeAndre Dunmore, Malachi Smith and Joaquin Ortiz all had a handful of carries
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and they all could do different things. But Done Moore is your hammer,
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you know, in that mold of the Tyler Frost and those guys where it's
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really hard to tackle him. He's gonna he's gonna create contact with the ball
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in his hand as well. I mean he's gonna he's gonna punish you for
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tackling him. You know, he's gonna take it personally. Almost sixty carries
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for five hundred yards, three touchdowns, also had two catches for thirty seven
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yards, and then on defense, sixty six tackles, twelve tackles for loss,
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one sack, one pass broken up, one forced fumble, one fumble
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recovery, he had an interception that they returned forty six yards. And then
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on the final game of the year, they were running out of punters.
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They all kept getting injured, and he he ended up punting that final game.
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He had two punts for forty yards. So a great overall football player
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and a kid that I feel like we've seen him forever. He's just played
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a lot of varsity football. Was a big time contributor on that team that
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got to the semi finals. I mean, so that's you know, one
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of the kind of the one of the last guys from that from that team,
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and and uh yeah, it just that seems like it was so long
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ago too, it does. Yeah, and just a great career. It's
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a really good player. Number thirty seven in the top one hundred countdown six
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foot one sixty five wide receiver and safety junior from Nuksack Valley. It's number
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three. Corey. Only another guy we seems like we've been talking about forever.
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I mean the impact he made from from day from his first ever game.
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I mean he kind of touchdown and had an interception, with returning kicks
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and punts and he was you know, fourteen years old and just first it
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was still August for crying out loud playing against you know, varsity against Sea
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Home right off the bat. I mean it was Ever since then there hasn't
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been a drop off. And and uh, you know, glad to see
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him be healthy all year. He you know, he missed the playoffs last
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year, Uh with that hamstring injury. You know. You and I talked
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to him for a while at Civic Stadium and it was a bummer he wasn't
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able to play in that game. And and just a just an awesome kid,
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super competitive, super competitive, great basketball player. He's kind of he's
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gonna be that guy that, you you know, a defensive gnat on the
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basketball court. You put him on, you know, the guy that's going
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to handle the ball a lot, you know, and he's gonna make things
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happen. And you know, started at center field as a freshman on a
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baseball team, batting lead off, and uh or played some left field,
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I guess too. But uh, but then he took up golf and he
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has started golfing. I mean, he's just he's a kid that is going
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to do what he wants to do. And and and I've become, you
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know, very friendly with him and just getting to know him. He's it's
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like ty, it's like talking to an adult. It's not like talking to
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a kid. And and I love what he does on the field because he
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could do so many different things. I mean, don't be surprised if he,
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you know, is lined up at running back last year or this upcoming
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year. I should say because me he carried the ball nineteen times for one
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hundred and seventy two yards and two touchdowns. And this is this is not
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like a lot of like reverse type stuff. He had a few of those,
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but he was lining up in the backfield every once in a while when
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they go double two to two running backs. So I mean, you know,
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although he's kind of slight, he's hard to tackle. He's very he's
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very determined to get extra yards. Thirty one catches for five hundred and twenty
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two yards and six touchdowns. He also completed a forty seven yard touchdown pass,
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which was pretty cool to see. And then on defense, I mean,
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he is the quarterback of that defense. He is calling things out,
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he is looking over the sideline, he's getting more information, he's lining everybody
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up. He's just he's the brain back there, and he makes a ton
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of plays. Thirty six tackles, eleven passes broken up. He intercepted four
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passes for the second year in a row, returned those for thirty seven yards,
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three kickoff returns for fifty six yards, three punt returns for thirty one
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yards. I mean, when I'm putting this stuff on his on the website,
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like nobody's got more lines of stats. He just does so many things.
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Still has another year to go, and he was named All Conference first
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team as a defensive back, which I you know, I felt like,
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not that he's been snubbed over the years, but I think he's been overlooked
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because he was younger, and now it's you know, you can't not notice
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him. He's gonna, you know, he he was just a great player
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and he's going to continue to be a great player as his senior year comes
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up next year. Number thirty six on the top one hundred countdown, six
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foot one, two hundred and forty pounds of pure steel guard defensive end.
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He's a senior from the Fordindale Golden Eagles at number sixty four. Kellen le
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Fave, Yeah, All Conference second team both ways in that three A West
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Go North. Just so glad he was able to play, come back from
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that arm injury and and play all the way through and dominate on both sides
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of the ball. Much needed on that offensive line and defensive line. You
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know, it was it was. It was crazy because you lose so many
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great players from last year on the line and you basically returned, you know,
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Camden Raymond in a bunch of new guys, but Kelln the fave,
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was projected to be a guy last year. So it was kind of like,
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man, if he is healthy, he's able to go. That's such
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a huge boost. That's almost like signing a free agent sort of. You
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know, it's just kind of like, man, you just have that guy,
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and you're like, oh, this is huge for us. And I
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believe that he was a big difference in it. You know, them winning
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eight games as opposed to maybe winning five or six and not even making the
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playoffs. So I you know, his his ability on both sides of the
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ball was just huge. Thirty eight tackles, eight tackles for loss, two
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and a half sacks, a fumble recovery. He also had the interception for
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two yards, which I loved He told me about it before I even saw
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it on film. You know, he messaged me to go, dude,
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wait, you just wait till you see my interception. And I'm like interception.
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I was like, oh right, this is gonna be awesome. You
24:06
know. But it's hard because I'm watching the game trying to take film,
24:10
but I'm I'm keeping my eyes on sixty four. I shouldn't be doing that.
24:11
I'm trying to keep stats and I'm trying to do certain things. And
24:15
then I was like, Okay, it'll just come organically. I'll see it
24:18
when it happens. Okay, great, there it is awesome, and uh
24:22
so, yeah, just really cool getting to know him this year too.
24:25
And and you know, we talked on the sideline a different football game at
24:29
one point and yeah, so yeah, he had a great senior year.
24:33
Just glad to see him healthy and play and play as well as he did.
24:37
Number thirty five on the top one hundred countdown five eleven, one eighty
24:41
five running back, linebacker and Tyler's leaving out about eight other positions. He's
24:47
a junior from the Meridian Trojans, number thirty two at Landon Downey. Yeah,
24:52
and you're you're absolutely correct. I mean he lined up at wide receiver
24:55
a ton of times, he lined up as you know, like a strong
24:59
safety a ton of times, inside and outside linebacker. He kicked, he
25:02
punted. Boy, he is far off. No, you weren't. I
25:06
mean he's he is. I mean when you talk about like value to a
25:11
team, uh, massive value. And he played the last three games I
25:17
think with a cast on his on his hand. I mean he was catching
25:21
a ton of passes. There's one game he cut like ten passes and not
25:26
once he got no. Once he got the cast, it was it was
25:29
a little different. I mean he would catch like maybe two or three a
25:32
game still, but it was Yeah, he was kind of he was kind
25:37
of limited after that to what he could do in the receiving game. But
25:41
even on defense, I mean, you know, just tackling with basically one
25:45
hand. Uh, but you know they needed him out there. I mean
25:48
that game against Bellingham and he what what he was doing with with one hand,
25:52
and and he was having to like kind of lower his shoulder and just
25:56
tackle with his shoulder the most part. And he got called like three times
26:00
on penalties for roughing just for using his shoulder. And he's like I can't
26:03
use my hand like I could. Hear him out there and I can't use
26:06
my hand, and it was just, you know, and then he kicks
26:08
the game winning field goal in that game as well. I mean, it
26:11
was just, you know, he leaves it all out there, and I
26:15
love players like that. One hundred and fifteen carries for five hundred and seventy
26:19
two yards and seven touchdowns, thirty five catches for four hundred and twenty eight
26:25
yards and four touchdowns. I mean, he's he's the main receiving target on
26:29
that team, and he lined up at running back most of the time.
26:32
Sixty three and a half tackles, six and a half tackles for loss,
26:34
seven passes broken up, one sack, two fumble recoveries, three kickoff returns
26:40
for forty three yards, twenty extra points, kicked a field goal kick that
26:44
won the game with five seconds to go. Eight punts for two hundred and
26:48
seventy four yards, averaging thirty four point three yards a punt. And he's
26:51
just a junior exactly. I mean, it's it's it's it's awesome, you
26:57
know, And uh, that's the you know, you know, at a
27:00
small school like that, you need a guy or too that can do a
27:04
lot of things. And boy, he fits that bill. It's a positionless
27:07
defense. Uh, guys are all over the place. It's fun to watch
27:11
and he's in the middle of all of it making plays number thirty four on
27:15
the top one hundred count down, five to seven. This almost doesn't even
27:19
seem right five seven wide receiver and safety. He's a junior from Squalcom Storm
27:26
number one. Joaquin Ortiez. He is Darren Sprolls. Yeah, you know,
27:33
it's you know, watching high school football. It's it's almost like like
27:38
when you see like a cartoon of a kid and I know, you we
27:41
got to go way back to when we were kids. But like when you
27:44
see like a cartoon character like run and like you don't see their legs,
27:48
you just see like circles. You know. That's that's that's kind of what
27:52
Joaquin Ortiz reminds me of. The Yeah, it's like he's so quick,
27:56
Like it's like it's like you don't see his feet, like they're just just
28:00
blurry. And it's just I don't know how he can move the way he
28:04
does and and getting him the ball with you know, I hate saying,
28:10
you know, oh, he plays great in space. You know who played
28:11
great space. Neil Armstrong played great in space. He he's he's a guy
28:17
that, like, you know, you give him the ball and you give
28:19
him room to make moves on guys and it's over, you know, kickoff
28:25
returns, punt returns, and he averaged I don't know almost I think over
28:30
thirty yards a kickoff return, over thirty yards of punt return. You're not
28:33
supposed to do that on punt returns. But that's the kind of guy that,
28:37
you know, once you get the ball and you let him just freelance,
28:41
Holy cow, It's it's crazy to see. There's not a lot of
28:44
guys that are like that. He's almost like he's almost like a flee like
28:48
he can just go from one direction to the other when you don't even see
28:52
it happening. It's just like, you know, I don't want to say
28:55
Barry Sanders like, but the way Barry Sanders can make a guy miss and
28:59
just fall on the ground, like, that's the kind of stuff he was
29:02
us. He's doing twenty four catches for two hundred and fifty eight yards and
29:07
two touchdowns. He also had thirty two carries for two hundred and sixty five
29:11
yards where they'd have him kind of come behind the quarterback and take a pitch
29:15
and just kind of outrun the defense. Fifty one tackles on defense. I
29:18
mean there was team. There was games where he led the team in tackles.
29:22
I mean he never came out the field. Five and a half tackles
29:26
for loss from a safety spot, six passes broken up, and a forced
29:30
fumble, yet that kickoff return for a touchdown. He was a Special Teams
29:33
Player of the Week one week and just a junior. I mean, my
29:37
goodness, you know, a joy to watch. I mean it's just fun.
29:41
I mean when it gets time to watch squalk and film, I get
29:45
a smile on my face just to just to see him just do what he's
29:48
gonna do. It's, you know, even if I know the outcome,
29:52
I know that he's going to put on a show and do some fun things.
29:53
And just one of my favorites to actually watch play football. Number thirty
30:00
three in the top one hundred countdown, five foot eleven and eighty two pounds
30:04
center YEP, defensive end senior from Mount Baker High School. Sorry coach,
30:11
a little slow on I you know, I do good on the first one,
30:15
but if there's ever a second one, I screw it up. Sumber
30:17
fifty seven, Vance Lawrence. Yeah, every year there's a kid that is
30:25
number one hundred and one on the list. Yeah. Last year it was
30:30
Vance Lawrence. And I felt horrible. I mean, I feel horrible if
30:33
I leave anybody off. But he had a great year last year, and
30:37
it just I, oh, it just it felt bad to do that.
30:41
And I knew he would have a great year this year, and so excited
30:45
to him to gee back on the list. He was on the list as
30:48
a sophomore, and and we talked about this before in a prior podcast about
30:55
guys that just have a knack of getting to the quarterback. Yeah, just
31:00
guys that just know how to do that. And he's like that. But
31:03
it's it's it's also on kickoff, you know. I mean even as a
31:07
sophomore, you know, you put a lot of sophomores on kickoff team and
31:10
and he's always the first one down there. That continued through his junior and
31:14
senior year. Always the first guy down there. It's constant. And then
31:18
offensively as a center, I mean we saw it with Landon Hatchet, but
31:22
you just don't see center's poll. He was pulling a lot. And he's
31:27
just that kind of athlete where I've seen center's poll you know, a lot
31:33
over the years. It's very rare, especially in high school football. But
31:37
if you ever seen a center at Mount Baker poll, yeah I haven't.
31:41
Yeah, you know, it shows the confidence that they had in him,
31:45
because that's it's when you when you're coaching and especially in that type of offense,
31:51
and you have a way of doing things and it always works. It
31:56
takes a lot for you to want to change anything, right, So and
32:00
to pull a center, it's not easy, man, it's really because you
32:04
gotta you got your hand all the way up in your butt and then you
32:06
gotta you gotta pull. I mean, that is not easy to do.
32:08
So for them to have the confidence to do that, that says a lot
32:12
about him. Yeah, And you know, he came in and had to
32:16
replace an injured center as a sophomore, and he just kept going. And
32:20
he you know, not the biggest guy, but strong, super strong,
32:23
I mean, one of the top wrestlers in the county, one of the
32:27
top wrestlers in the state, you know, and it's just that leverage that
32:31
nastiness, that ability. You know, it was just so fun to see
32:37
him grow and and be, you know, a leader on this team,
32:42
a big time leader and soft spoken kid, but nasty between the lines.
32:49
You know. He forced three fumbles this year. I think that led the
32:51
county. Uh sixty two tackles, nine and a half sacks, six and
32:55
a half tackles for lost. By the way, the nine and a half
32:58
sacks this year also led the county one pass deflected, one fumble recovery.
33:04
Boy just an animal, you know, like I said, not the biggest
33:09
guy, but you know, playing with especially he had two sophomore guards on
33:14
either side of him that were brand new DI varsity football. Both of them
33:16
They're gonna be good players, but it's just it's it was new, you
33:21
know, and so he had to really be that pillar in the middle of
33:24
the line and and and be the guy that people could lean on. And
33:30
he had just a marvelous season. Awesome. We are now two thirds of
33:34
the way through Tyler. Yeah, number thirty two in the top one hundred
33:37
countdown six six, two hundred pounds. What is that song? Is it?
33:43
Big John? But I think he says like six foot six, way
33:45
two forty five or something like that. You know, Yeah, six foot
33:49
six, two hundred pounds tight end outside linebacker. I've seen here from the
33:52
Seahome Mariners, number twelve, Bradick Duckworth. Yeah, he has all of
33:58
six foot six. I've seen say they're six foot six. He is six
34:01
foot six. It's and and I saw it from his very first Varsty game
34:07
where you know, he caught a ton of passes uh for over one hundred
34:12
yards and at that with that slight build as a sophomore, because he was
34:19
about one seventy five and he was almost sixty six at that point, I
34:24
thought he was gonna get cut in half by a defensive player once he caught
34:28
the ball. But he would get low and drive forward and pick up extra
34:31
yards. And I was like, holy cow, you don't see kids built
34:36
like that play that way. And that never led up, you know,
34:40
even this year, you know, playing tight end. Uh, he'd be
34:44
split out every once in a while, but he'd he'd get down nasty even
34:46
play play some tight end, just some run blocking, but as of just
34:52
a weapon over the middle of the field. The target that he provided forty
34:57
two catches on the year six hundred and thirteen yards and six touchdowns. Was
35:01
just awesome to see. Yeah, just fantastic player. All Conference second team
35:10
tight end, and then All Conference second team as a linebacker as well,
35:14
coming off the edge. Fifty nine tackles, five sacks, four and a
35:17
half tackles for lost, three passes broken up, and a forced fumble back
35:22
at the natural position as an outside linebacker. Played it as a sophomore,
35:25
got moved back to safety as a junior. Back there again as a senior.
35:30
His game against Burlington was was awesome on defense to help solidify that win.
35:37
You know, one of very the only four seniors on that Sea Home
35:40
team, a major leader, a force on the basketball court. You know,
35:46
probably gonna go play college volleyball somewhere. I've seen highlights of him playing
35:51
volleyball and it's nasty. I mean, I can't even imagine trying to block
35:57
a spike that he has because he's got major hops six. We're not doing
36:00
that one, Tyler. No, we're not doing Joe's versus Joe's and you
36:04
and I are not blocking Braddock Duckworth. No we're not. Yeah. Well,
36:07
I mean we'd have to lower the net to do it anyway. But
36:09
I mean, I'll try to set for him. I'll do that. Yeah,
36:13
there you go, we could do that. How about how about we
36:15
gotta we got to set to uh uh Bradick Duckworth. And then who's the
36:19
best girls volleyball hitter, you know outside hit her? It's probably Ashley Shoemate.
36:23
Who is you know, I think they're dating Braddick Duckworth and that Well
36:29
there you go. So I mean we got it in ye know what I
36:30
mean, you can get a hold of her. Yeah. So uh yeah,
36:36
just a great, great football player and as so tough, you know,
36:42
and that's what I've loved about watching his game as he refuses to go
36:45
down even with you know, being that that lanky he's he's he's sinewy,
36:52
he's he's he's wiring. As the said on the replacements, Yeah, it
36:55
actually wasn't bad right there. Yeah, but yeah, a fun player and
37:01
it got another guy it seems like we've talked about forever. Yes, you
37:05
know, put up a ton of numbers over the years and and did it
37:07
at multiple positions. Did he have any numbers from from the COVID year.
37:13
No, No, he did not play as freshman. I was I was
37:15
just thinking of myself because all of these seniors would have been freshmen during that
37:19
COVID spring season. I was thinking to myself, like, I see a
37:22
couple of names here where I'm like, I think that guy might have played
37:24
a little bit. But then there was a few man because you know that's
37:29
always interesting. Number thirty one on the top one hundred countdown, six foot
37:32
four, two hundred and ten pounds quarterback and punter, senior from the Nuksack
37:37
Valley Pioneers. At number twelve, Joey Brown. He did put up numbers
37:40
during the COVID year as a freshman, one of the one of the four
37:44
or five or so that did. Boy, another guy been around forever.
37:50
Just pure athletic ability. He is. He's right up there. I mean
37:54
we've talked about the going to you know, offered to go to Western to
37:59
be a decay athlete. You just don't, you know, how do you
38:02
find decathletes? They don't do a decathlon in high school and you just see
38:07
a guy that, Yeah, you just finding guys that somehow can get first
38:13
place in every event that they try, and I mean try. He's a
38:16
guy that you know, if he if they would have said okay, you're
38:21
gonna be a wide out, you know, only he would catch a ton
38:25
of passes. If they said you're just gonna be you know, a safety
38:30
or something, he'd be amazing. You know, he's punted this year and
38:32
averaged almost forty yards punt. He never punted before. You know, when
38:37
when Boom Boom Biggery got hurt, they put they put him into kick extra
38:39
points. He made four extra points that game against Mount Baker. Uh.
38:44
They did split him out every once in a while to have his brother throw
38:45
to him when they needed a big play, like right before the half or
38:49
something like that. You know, it was you know, yeah, when
38:53
you have that kind of athletic ability at your disposal, but he's also your
38:58
quarterback, it's who it's tricky because what do you what do you? What
39:01
do you do? You know, there were lots of games really played a
39:05
half, you know, and his numbers were down a little bit because of
39:07
it. But but when you look at the percentages and the averages, his
39:12
numbers were way up. You talk about completion percentage of you know, sixty
39:16
five sixty six percent. Uh, he completed eighty five of one hundred and
39:22
twenty nine passes for one four and twenty three yards. We talked about that
39:25
yards per pass attempt. Now you're going over eleven yards per pass attempt with
39:29
him fifteen touchdown passes, so more than you know, twelve thirteen percent of
39:35
his attempts go for a touchdown. Throws a beautiful deep ball. The ball
39:39
just kept getting better and better each year. Became smarter with the ball,
39:43
didn't throw as many interceptions. Uh. And then when he runs with the
39:46
ball, he's you know, that's another thing you have to deal with because
39:51
he's one of the fastest guys on the field, but he's also six four
39:53
two and ten pounds. He'll he will, it's hard to he's hard to
39:57
bring down. He can he can hurdle you. He can do all these
40:00
different things. Seventy two carries for four hundred and sixty two yards and eight
40:05
touchdowns. You know, All Conference first team quarterback for the second year in
40:09
a row. Just you know, man, a guy that and he's just
40:14
a great kid. I mean, I've gotten to know him, you know,
40:19
very just kind of you know, shrug the shoulders just kind of you
40:24
know, yeah, whatever, and he's just cool, you know, you
40:29
know, sharpshooter on the basketball team, and you know, but you know,
40:32
in the layup line, he's gonna throw some dunks down, you know
40:36
what I mean, Like, you know, but that's not what he's asked
40:37
to do so much. You know, in basketball, he's gonna stay outside
40:40
and shoot. He's gonna go get some rebounds as well. Man. Just
40:45
it's just a great piece of you know, Clay to mold And we talked
40:50
about how baseball is different than football, just a kind of a different mindset
40:53
and different abilities. You know. I saw him at a baseball game last
40:59
year, and I know he'd his track and he came up and his brother
41:01
was pitching, and I said, how are you at baseball? And he's
41:05
like, I'm horrible at baseball. I cannot throw a baseball, I cannot
41:08
hit a baseball. And he could have been super humble about it, like
41:12
he maybe he's really good. But it's like that just tells you right there,
41:15
how they're just different. They're just different kinds of games. I mean,
41:19
I remember seeing Lebron James swing and miss three times at a slow pitch
41:23
softball game when he was doing a ESPN thing with Andrea Kramer, Like,
41:28
Tyler, how many times have you seen like, oh, this guy from
41:30
the Seahawks is out there Mariners, you know, opening day, taking batting
41:35
practice, and you look at him and you're like, this guy's never picked
41:37
up a baseball bat before. Yeah, yeah, looks like it right.
41:42
But then but yeah, but you see like Bartolo Cologne and you go,
41:45
well, there's a major league athlete right there. And then he's hitting dongs.
41:47
I mean that whole run that he hit was it was a pretty good
41:50
pop. Man. Yeah, so it's it's just a different type of thing.
41:54
But but man, what a what a great athlete and a really cool
41:59
kid going to be really be missed this upcoming year. Number thirty in the
42:02
top one hundred, countdown five to eleven, one seventy wide receiver and corner.
42:07
He is a senior from the Linden Lions, and even though he wears
42:10
number zero, there's no absence of value in Cooper More. You got that
42:15
right. He had these little sparks as a junior. That senior class was
42:22
loaded, so getting in and playing was limited here and there, but he'd
42:28
made some really big plays to where I kind of figured this year, I
42:31
think believe I had him as my breakout player this year. I thought,
42:35
you know, he would come in and just and just explode, and he
42:37
really did, especially on the defensive side of the ball. You know,
42:39
I talked about Bishop Ootsi as a really good tackling corner. You know,
42:44
Wayne Silvis is that same way before before he got he hurt his leg.
42:50
But Cooper Moore might be the best tackling corner. Boy. He had a
42:55
tackle, you know, early on this year that you know where it was
43:01
cool it you know, it kind of looked like, you know, Dino
43:06
Bravo in a doing a side suplex on a guy at Russelemania four or something.
43:12
It was. It was it was different, you know, and it
43:15
was He's so strong. He's just so powerful and very athletic. I mean
43:20
there was a game where he had like ten tackles. I think it was
43:22
against Archbishop. I mean, I know they're running the ball a lot,
43:23
but he could contain that edge like an outside linebacker playing corner because he has
43:30
the ability, the tackling ability. And then he was a weapon offensively,
43:34
and he was a guy that just has great hands, but he's you know,
43:38
could go deep, catch short stuff, intermediary everything. Thirty one catches
43:44
for five hundred and twenty eight yards and three touchdowns, fifty and a half
43:47
tackles, ten passes broken up, and one tackle for loss that might have
43:52
been on that supplex tackle, three interceptions for twelve yards, and four kickoff
43:55
returns for seventy eight yards. He had an awesome season And what so many
44:02
Linden kids have to know is that, you know, especially when you have
44:07
a bunch of guys ahead of you that are very, very talented, when
44:10
you get your chance, make the most of it. Do what you know,
44:15
exactly what Cooper Moore did. When you get there, you know,
44:17
don't let them take you out. Always be in there, play great.
44:22
And that's what he did. And it was awesome to see number twenty nine
44:25
in the top one hundred countdown six foot four, two hundred and seventy five
44:30
pounds right tackle, defensive tackle senior from the Bellingham BayHawks. It's number seventy
44:35
four. Jesse Harward plays with a ton of passion and henre on the field
44:40
and run blocker extraordinaire. That was the biggest difference between what Bellingham has been
44:46
doing the last few years to this year was the run blocking was just awesome
44:52
this year and he was a huge part of that. And I think with
44:54
him and Finnegan Jensen on that right side, a couple guys that together a
45:00
averaging you know, two ninety that and he made Finnegan Jensen better. And
45:07
with those two on the right side the entire year, there's no wonder that
45:12
Olden Bates broke the school record for yards per carrie. You know, it's
45:15
no wonder that Tyler Frost yards per carry went up by two and a half
45:19
yards per carry for the season. They're the same players, it's the line
45:23
was different. And he brought that nastiness, that road grader type to the
45:29
offensive line that had been sorely missing, and it was huge. Didn't play
45:34
as much defense as he has in the past. He was in on the
45:37
rotation, you know, played a lot of nose tackle, but it was
45:43
it was the impact was felt more on the offensive side. Did end up
45:45
with sixteen and a half tackles, four tackles for loss and a fumble recovery
45:51
and playing an independent schedule, but being a part of the Northwest Conference,
45:57
super hard to get named to the All conference teams, you know, by
46:00
all the other coaches who you didn't play against any of them, and he
46:02
was named All Conference second teams so that tells you a lot about what the
46:07
other coaches think about him with as with his games. So that's a huge
46:13
thing for the belling In program to have that. And he, I mean,
46:16
just as far as run blocking goes, was just was just nasty and
46:22
could collapse the whole side of the line and open up huge gaps for the
46:25
for the run game. Number twenty eight on the top one hundred countdown,
46:29
six foot one, two hundred and five pounds linebacker. He is a junior
46:34
from the Lynden Christian Lynx. It's number thirty three. Trey Bosman. He
46:38
sent me a message before the season started. I like these, Yeah,
46:43
I love these. I never know where they're going, but I love them.
46:46
And I did not pick him as my breakout player. And he let
46:52
me know, who did you pick? I picked Mick Owen, who had
46:54
a great year, and and I did not pick Trey Bosman. He was
47:01
like, hey, Bud, yeah, he says, just so you know,
47:05
I'll be the breakup player this year, which I thought was great because
47:08
there was no there was no you know, I'm awesome and you don't know
47:13
how good. There was none of that it was just he's just let me
47:15
know, just let me know what's up. I let me know. I
47:19
do. And I loved it too, And to me, that's a confidence,
47:22
not cockiness, you know, exactly exactly. And there's been a ton,
47:28
there's been a lot of Bosman's over the years, and so I'm not
47:30
sure who his dad is. I'm sure if he told me who it was,
47:34
I'd be like, Oh, yeah, he's the guy who blah blah
47:35
blah blah blah, Davie. Somebody's listening right now and sending you a text.
47:38
It probably so, And I'd really like to know, because man,
47:44
he played so great this year. He was named All Conference first team as
47:49
a linebacker, finished with ninety two and a half tackles. Now, the
47:54
way I do tackles, that's really hard to get that many tackles. Usually,
48:00
usually the county leader has around eighty usually and that's including playoffs, and
48:06
he had ninety two and a half. I would not be surprised if he
48:08
breaks one hundred next year. He's just he's just that kind of instinctive player
48:13
and never misses a tackle. He also had nine tackles for loss and was
48:16
tremendous in ass. You know coverage, and I mean one of the best
48:22
I've ever seen as a linebacker. Five passes broken up, four interceptions that
48:28
he returned two hundred and sixteen yards on four interceptions, two of them were
48:34
returned for touchdowns, the other two were returned to the into the red zone.
48:42
I mean, it makes me, it makes me think of the ninety
48:45
four season that Dion had with San Francisco is the one year that he played
48:49
with the forty nine ers. He had six interceptions that year, returned three
48:53
of them for touchdowns, and his return yards were like three hundred and three
48:57
yards. It was crazy average fifty and a half yards an interception return.
49:02
And that's exactly what Trey Bosman did. Half of his interceptions were returned for
49:06
touchdowns, same exact numbers. Now there are different players, obviously, but
49:10
but Trey Bosman can do it at all the different levels, right in the
49:15
middle of the field. Yeah, he had Cayden Stite playing next to him,
49:19
and I get that, but but there were games when he was better
49:22
than cayden' stite. There were there were times when you know he was he
49:28
was so aggressive and and stood out with those with those green gloves which I
49:34
like because I can kind of see who's who there. Sometimes if the film's
49:37
not great and and uh and didn't play any offense. You know, could
49:42
be a tight end type. You know, probably could even play on the
49:45
offensive line and would probably be great. But when you have a guy we
49:50
did, We talked about it with like Blake Kureski. When you have a
49:52
guy that's just a linebacker and you could just use him on that side of
49:57
the ball where he always has energy for that boy, you can get some
50:00
huge benefits out of that. And Trey Bosman had one of those outstanding years
50:05
in Lynden Christian history as far as linebackers go, and really excited that he's
50:09
going to come back next year and be, you know, one of the
50:12
big time leaders on that team. Number twenty seven in the top one hundred
50:15
countdown, six foot three, two hundred and fifteen pounds, tight end,
50:20
outside linebacker. He is a junior from the Linden Lions. It's number eight.
50:24
Isaiah Audman. Yeah, freak of an athlete. You know, looks
50:30
like one of those kids like when you're watching pee wee football, where who's
50:36
that kid? He looks older than everybody else, like he just kind of
50:38
looks like that on the field where he's built. Definitely, he almost looks
50:43
like a college kid already. Yeah, that's when people ask me, like,
50:46
what does a Division one athlete look like? Yeah, that's that's one
50:50
of the guys in the county that looks like a Division one athlete for sure.
50:52
Yeah. Right. And and I saw him over Eastern Camp, especially
50:59
on the Friday night lights where when they needed you know, when it was
51:02
like third down and they had to score, they just split him out wide
51:07
and just throw it up to him and have him go get it. And
51:10
and I love that you know about him where he wants the ball in that
51:15
situation and provides a huge target. But as a run blockering tight end,
51:22
I don't think there was a better one in the county. And this is
51:25
his second year being named All Conference first Team as a tight end, and
51:29
I guarantee you every coach is like his run block He is an extra tackle
51:34
out there, and it's it's devastating. Did have thirteen catches for two hundred
51:39
and forty two yards and four touchdowns. But it's the it's you're weighing what
51:44
you need, you split him out, you get that mismatch problem or do
51:46
you bring him in and because he's such a great blocker, you don't want
51:50
to give away what you're doing. But boy, he's so good at both.
51:53
And then on defense, thirty two and a half tackles, two and
51:57
a half tackles for loss, one pass broken up, two forced fumbles,
52:00
one of them caused a fumble that was picked up by Charlie Ayres and scored
52:06
a touchdown. He had an interception. Uh, just a junior. Too
52:09
hard to believe sometimes that some of these kids are still have another year and
52:15
that that that junior class this year, you know, we talked about last
52:20
year as when they were sophomores. That that just that class overall around the
52:23
county is one of the best classes I've ever seen in Walking County history.
52:27
There's been some great ones, but boy, you know, the class of
52:30
ninety eight was really really good. But this this is a special class,
52:36
and he's one of the big time players from that class. Number twenty six
52:39
on the top one hundred countdown six foot one, two hundred and seventy five
52:45
pounds, right tackle, defensive tackle senior from the Squalcomb Storms. Number fifty
52:49
four Colby Lewis another kid that, like DeAndre Dunmore, was a big time
52:53
contributor on that on that semi final team. You know, starting on the
52:59
offensive line as a sophomore, and I think I believe he dropped off a
53:04
little bit as a junior, but he really picked it up this year.
53:08
It really picked it up. Was was asked to be ready to play a
53:16
lot on defense as well, you're gonna play every snap at right tackle,
53:20
but we need we want you to be on the field as much as possible
53:22
at nose tackle. And he took that and ran with it. And you
53:28
know, a lot of these teams that have those three man fronts, they
53:30
rotate so many different guys. He didn't get taken out very much. And
53:36
that tells me a lot for a guy his size to be able to play
53:38
over and over again on so many downs and have the endurance. And again,
53:43
great athlete, you know, a great baseball player, third baseman,
53:47
you know that. So he's he's again this is kind of like what we
53:52
were talking about with Brody Bauman, right, I mean, it's he plays
53:54
baseball with a football mentality, and he is. I'm just so happy that
54:04
the bounce back a year that he had because he was an animal out there.
54:08
You know. I asked him, if you know, before the season
54:10
started, if you could play any position just for one play, what would
54:15
it be? And he just, without even you know, hesitating, he
54:19
said, oh, middle linebacker. You know he's and I was. And
54:22
I asked him who his favorite athlete was, and he said Bobby Wagner.
54:24
And I says, is that why you were a fifty four? He said,
54:27
yes, sir, and I just you know, he plays like that,
54:31
very active, very quick feet, very very quick feet. I mean,
54:37
great athlete playing right tackle that that size thirty and then on defense thirty
54:40
four tackles, three sacks, two and a half tackles for lost, a
54:45
force fumble, and a fumble recovery that I thought he might score touchdown on.
54:50
He was dragging some guys with him out at Civic Stadium earlier in the
54:52
year, but he ended up going down. But man, just a great
54:58
way to cap off a senior year. Yeah, they went four and six,
55:00
but he was a he just he had a phenomenal season and did it
55:07
the right way. The last one for this podcast, number twenty five on
55:12
the top one hundred Countdown five to ten one seventy five quarterback and punter,
55:17
just a sophomore from the Seahome Mariners. It's number two Nolan Wright. Yeah,
55:22
super likable kid. You know, that's the first thing I think of.
55:25
I Mean, we know how great of an athlete is, but just
55:29
an awesome person. And that's what's been fun getting to know him is is
55:35
Uh, you know, it's rare when I go to a game, a
55:38
basketball game where kids are going through the layup line and then he'll come over
55:44
to be and give me a fist bump and he's like, hey, what's
55:45
up, Tyler? And I love it when that happens. And more and
55:49
more kids are doing that, which is great. I don't want to break
55:52
them out of their rhythm. I'm just there to get the lighting right for
55:54
my camera and stuff like that and just kind of check things out. And
55:58
and uh, there's people are still yelling for stickers at these games. Can
56:01
you believe that? Uh, there's there's a girl at Meridian that is the
56:07
same girl every every game I go to at Meridian, She asked. She's
56:10
like, when are you gonna bring more stickers? Tyler? Like it's become
56:14
this personal vendetta almost so she's not. And then I saw at a Ferndale
56:19
game, I'm like, what do you is this when they weren't playing Meridian.
56:22
So she's I think she's just gonna she's tracking me for stickers, put
56:28
a tag on your on your car or something. Right, But uh,
56:31
man, Nolan Wright could end up breaking a ton of records. And it's
56:39
you know, it's it's a lot of it's because you know the longevity.
56:43
He's going to be a four year starting quarterback. Well, Tyler, I'm
56:46
already sick of talking about the kid, and he's still got two years left.
56:50
Yeah, you're right, You're right. And and I you know,
56:53
in a weird way, I'm really in a selfish way almost, I want
56:58
to see him play defense because he's such a great athlete. I know they're
57:02
stocked in the secondary. You do lose just center feel of the foot picking
57:10
off passes. Absolutely, I mean, he's just he's so athletic and but
57:19
man put up you know his his I think as a freshman it was a
57:23
lot of just pure athleticism, go out there and fling the ball around.
57:28
But this year he really worked on you know, actual quarterback you know,
57:35
mechanics and stuff. Like that and throw the ball right, and what what
57:38
passes to throw? You know, not just hey, throw that throw that
57:43
you know, corner route. It's like, no, how high, how
57:45
much how much you know angle do you put on it? Like it's like
57:47
playing cannon duel. Right, you got to know the right power and the
57:51
right angle to put it because you got to get it over that safety or
57:53
over that linebacker. But in front of that safety. Yes, that's that's
57:57
the big key where you know, quarterbacks take it takes a while to kind
58:00
of learn that thing and then in live action and doing that and in the
58:05
in a tough league, you know, against really good defense. I mean
58:07
that anacortus defense is crazy good, you know, and so doing it against
58:13
a team like that, I'm where he I believe he threw for like two
58:15
hundred yards in that game. Uh, it's it's uh, you know,
58:20
he's he threw for six touchdowns against Blaine to tie the school record. He's
58:28
he's got a bright future. This year he had one hundred. He completed
58:30
one hundred and fifty two fasses for two than and twenty two yards and twenty
58:35
three touchdowns. He also ran the ball for seventy two yards and two touchdowns,
58:38
and he averaged thirty six point eight yards of punt and he averaged over
58:43
thirty nine yards of punt as a freshman. Uh, and he punts left
58:45
footed. He throws right handed. Like when I see stuff like that,
58:50
I'm like, Okay, now you're just showing off, Like I how crazy
58:54
athletic are you to where this is the way that you do it? And
58:59
all right, you're athletics. And he's the last guy that's gonna show off.
59:02
And I'm I'm teasing about that obviously, but but but it's it's uh,
59:10
it's special to watch him. I mean, we've heard about him when
59:14
he was in eighth grade and so uh to see him do those did do
59:17
what he's doing right now and to be a leader at that age is great
59:22
and uh, there's just gonna be more big things ahead for him, and
59:27
I'm really excited for him. Tyler. That is it? Do you happen
59:31
to know the name Monty Bosman? I do? That is Trey Bosman's father.
59:38
Are you? How do you know that? Because you know you're you're
59:43
you're good at this that Monty Bossman was a wide receiver and defensive end at
59:46
Lennon Christian graduated in ninety four. He was, yeah, coming off the
59:52
edge, tall and a part of that that team his senior year. They
59:57
got to the state championship game in the Kingdome. Back to the day King
1:00:00
Dome. One word and okay, inside joke, and it was that that
1:00:08
team was unbelievable. I mean they went on a tear and they were.
1:00:14
They were up in that state championship game and lost late. They were undefeated
1:00:17
the whole year. That was that. When you start talking about teams that
1:00:21
are one of the best teams in Walkom County history to not win a state
1:00:23
championship game, the ninety three links are right up there. That was a
1:00:30
nasty team with tons of great players on it, and he was He was
1:00:36
a starting wide receiver and defensive end. That's awesome. So if I give
1:00:38
you, if I say to you, Tyler, give me the top three
1:00:43
best teams to not win a state championship what are the first three? Off
1:00:45
the top of your head? Ninety seven Ferndale Matthias Wilson that that team was
1:00:52
load and lost the state championship game on a crazy trick play. The two
1:01:00
thousand Meridian team they won it in ninety nine. Uh, and they had
1:01:07
a lot of guys coming back. They were undefeated all the way, uh,
1:01:12
but they lost. They threw seven interceptions that game, six by the
1:01:15
same kid Omac Oh I remember this, Yeah, yeah, and the Omak
1:01:23
coach was Galen km Ink Yeah, and who you know played at ELCA and
1:01:30
was the first kid at else to go to Northwest University in Iowa and created
1:01:34
that pipeline of Lynden Kidds. Was he the head coach at Elsie for a
1:01:37
bit he was, Yeah, he was there between the two Dan km ink
1:01:40
stints. Oh that's right, yes, yeah, and yeah, and then
1:01:46
probably that probably that ninety three Linnen Christian team, all three of the well,
1:01:52
the Ferndale team was not undefeated, actually they were. They they lost
1:01:55
Week one to Arlington thirty three to thirty. But then they went on and
1:02:00
just terrorized everybody else. And Matthias Wilson ran for a thousand yards in the
1:02:02
state playoffs alone, which is one of those crazy I mean when you think
1:02:07
about how many games you're only playing, yeah, and the but the competition
1:02:10
you're playing against, it's just crazy. Yeah. It's one of those things
1:02:15
where the first round you might be able to put up two hundred or two
1:02:16
fifty, but after that you shouldn't be like you should be it should be
1:02:21
tough to get you know, well over one hundred. Yeah, yeah,
1:02:24
I mean, so those are those are the ones that stand out. The
1:02:28
eighty four Meridian team, I thought they had kind of everything, and but
1:02:35
they they lost their car back in that game. That that's kind of it
1:02:38
at that point. There's there's been a there's been a few, but those
1:02:43
are kind of the ones that stand that that really stand out to me that
1:02:46
I thought, you know, I mean, obviously I wasn't watching the eighty
1:02:50
four Meridian team as a five year old, but but as I was going
1:02:53
back and you know, reading about the team and stuff like that. But
1:02:57
the other three I thought were showings to in the state title that year,
1:03:00
I just you know, and it just didn't happen. But that's the thing.
1:03:05
I mean, I only know about the Walkoe County teams. I do
1:03:07
not know anything about the other teams, and so, you know, I
1:03:10
mean I could I could throw in this year's knok SEC team, you know.
1:03:15
So yeah, I mean it's tough. It's it would be a tough
1:03:16
argument because of the two losses that they had. But yeah, when you
1:03:20
just talk pure talent, I mean that has to be a a no brainer.
1:03:24
Top maybe even top five most talented teams that Wakam County has had that
1:03:30
didn't win a state championship. They didn't even get to the state championship.
1:03:35
Yeah, that's a whole different more right, that's a whole different you know
1:03:37
when you start talking about that because they're you know, the twenty sixteen Baker
1:03:42
team. You know they had Jed Schlimer and and t J. Bass that
1:03:46
that they got to the quarters. I mean, that team was super talented.
1:03:51
So it's you know, it's it's trits tricky. But yeah, it's
1:03:54
just fun to pure roster talent head to toe. I mean, yeah,
1:04:00
exact Valley team from this year is yeah, way way up there. Way
1:04:04
they definitely are, They definitely are. It's it's a lot of great players.
1:04:08
Yeah all right, Tyler, Well, yeah, I think we're done
1:04:13
anything to say before we head out. Yeah, I just it's a it's
1:04:16
a fun list and we're getting down to what do we got? Now?
1:04:20
Only only twenty or left. I mean that's it's crazy, and uh,
1:04:28
you know that this was a really hard year. There wasn't like you know,
1:04:34
it seems like every year there's like three or four guys and I'm like,
1:04:36
okay, they're definitely the top five. This was like where I had
1:04:40
like eleven guys that were top five kind of guys. Yeah. So it
1:04:44
would even asked me a little bit for the idea top five and which I
1:04:47
was like, oh wow, like, yeah, if I gave you my
1:04:50
thoughts a little bit, and I honestly I don't even remember what exactly my
1:04:53
thoughts were, and I don't know if you even took them into account,
1:04:55
but you asked me, and I was like, well, this is this
1:04:58
is where I'm at with it, and yeah, which I don't think honestly,
1:05:01
I don't know that you've ever done that other than I remember one year.
1:05:04
I don't remember which year specifically it was, but I remember you asked
1:05:06
me about number one and that was it. But yeah, I mean,
1:05:13
and I think what it was was. I think I think maybe somebody had
1:05:17
been heard or something or maybe missed. I can't remember exactly, but I
1:05:19
just remember that's the only other time you've ever even asked me anything about the
1:05:25
top one hundred, and I don't even I don't even really act like I
1:05:28
asked you the other day, I said, Tyler, I said, who's
1:05:30
the top five so I can start making the graphic. And that was that
1:05:32
was the like, you know, kind of like the first I knew off
1:05:34
the top of my head, right, you know. Yeah, and then
1:05:36
boom there I was. And so yeah, Tyler, twenty four down to
1:05:43
six. That will be out January ninth at noon. Again, we've already
1:05:45
done one hundred. Well now we've done one hundred all the way down to
1:05:49
twenty five. Yeah, I mean we've done a lot of guys, and
1:05:54
that is I mean one, two three, This is now the fourth one.
1:05:59
So yeah, you can go back and listen to that. Before we
1:06:01
head out, we need to give a thank you again to Anytime Fitness for
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1:06:31
Anderson for walcome Preps watcom preps dot com. I'm Brylan Spencer. You've been
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